Kramer H J, Krampitz G, Bäcker A, Krampitz G, Meyer-Lehnert H
Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Bonn, Germany.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1995 Aug 4;213(1):289-94. doi: 10.1006/bbrc.1995.2128.
Recently, we isolated from the urine of salt-loaded healthy subjects a more polar ouabain-like factor OLF-1 and a more apolar OLF-2, the latter cross-reacted with a digoxin anti-body. They were purified to single compounds with dose-dependent Na-K-ATPase inhibition. Mass-spectroscopy (MS) showed a Mr of around 400 and 1H-NMR- and IR-spectroscopy suggested diascorbic acid salts, i.e., vanadium (V) diascorbates (Mr 403) with similar elution times from RP-HPLC as OLFs. IC50 was 9 x 10(-5)M for VIV-diascorbate as compared to 2 x 10(-6)M for Vv-diascorbate. Enzyme inhibition was non-competitive with respect to sodium and Mg-ATP; p-NPPase assay showed strong inhibition in its E2-configuration. We suggest that V-diascorbates represent endogenous OLFs excreted in human urine.
